About my research
I am Distinguished Professor of Management in the Goodman School of Business at Brock University. My research focuses on how employees, organizations, and self-employed people use their resources to overcome challenges and embrace opportunities in their entrepreneurial work.
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- When Family Meets Crisis: How Parenthood and Gender Shape Entrepreneurs’ Well-Being
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- When Colleagues Ignore You: How Idealism Sustains Constructive Action at Work
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- When Broken Promises Make Employees Lash Out: The Role of Proactivity in Destructive Voice
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- Rethinking Organizational Change: A Person-Centered View of Change Patterns
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- When Bullying Silences Ethics: How Distrust Blocks Employee Voice—and What Restores It
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- When Work Crowds Out Family: How Confidence Keeps Creativity Alive
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- When Careers Stall: How Conformity Protects Voluntary Effort at Work
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- When Emotional Strain Blocks Initiative: How Performance Climates Help Employees Adapt
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- When Coworkers Sabotage: How Lost Self-Worth and Justice Sensitivity Delay Deadlines
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- When Work Overload Blocks Collaboration: How Resilience and Forgiveness Sustain Knowledge Sharing
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- When Unclear Roles Threaten Voluntary Effort: How Connection and Trust Sustain Cooperation
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- When Supervisors Hide Knowledge: How Career Frustration and Despotic Leadership Lower Performance
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- When Witnessing Wrong Feels Wrong: How Observing Supervisor Ostracism Sparks Employee Guilt
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- When Loneliness Follows You Home: How Work Isolation and Faith Shape Job Performance
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- When Family Exclusion Follows Employees to Work: How Resilience Fuels Positive Change
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- When Misaligned Values Lead to Slacking: How Cultural Orientations Shape Employees’ Procrastination
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- When Bitterness Blocks Kindness: How Faith Helps Exhausted Employees Support Coworkers
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- Entrepreneurial Well-Being in Crisis: How Gender Roles Shaped Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic
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- When Unclear Roles Undermine Initiative: How Passion, Harmony, and Commitment Sustain Change
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- When Promises Are Broken: How Leaders Prevent Employees from Quitting
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- When Pandemic Fears Breed Lateness: How Safety Climate Protects Exhausted Employees
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- When Family Ties Shape Innovation: The Roles of Market Focus and Legacy Goals
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- When Rudeness Breeds Rebellion: How Rumination Turns Incivility into Defiance
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- When Unfairness Silences Solutions: How Clarity and Conflict Shape Employee Voice
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- How Culture and Capability Shape Employee Venturing
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- Resilience in Crisis: How Pandemic Stress and Family Conflict Affect Workplace Creativity
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- When Obedience Backfires: How Deference Fuels Unethical Loyalty at Work
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- When Fairness Fades: How Entitlement and Doubt Lower Job Performance
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- How Work Overload Strengthens the Creative Impact of Transformational Leadership and Initiative
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- When Politics Turn Toxic: How Crises Intensify Employees’ Withdrawal and Misconduct
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- When Broken Promises Stifle Innovation: How Forgiveness Restores Idea Championing
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- When Guilt Fuels Growth: How Religious Faith Turns Incivility Into Better Performance
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- When Power Feels Precarious: How Leaders’ Contempt Turns Threats into Abuse
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- When Conflict Tests Collaboration: How Innovation Keeps Helping Alive
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- When Conflict Silences Ideas: How Peer Bonds Keep Employees Championing Change
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- When Change Feels Urgent: How Performance Pressure Drives Employees to Champion New Ideas
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- When Family Tensions Undermine Workplace Generosity: The Protective Power of Hope
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- When Family Helps Business: How Support Reduces Work Strain for Women Entrepreneurs
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- When Bullying Drains Purpose: How Resilience and Passion Sustain Change Efforts
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- When Technology Meets the Market: How Balancing Capabilities Boost Commercial Success
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- When Conflict Meets Cooperation: How Passion and Collectivism Sustain Helping
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- Reconfiguring Processes of Field Emergence: From Imprinted Practices to Grand Challenges
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- When Co-Worker Incivility Undermines Performance: The Protective Power of Psychological Capital
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- When Family Demands Cloud Work: Goal Sharing and Trust Keep Ideas Alive
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- When Crises Create Fear: How Emotional Control and Improvisation Protect Job Performance
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- When Respect Meets Strategy: How Personal Traits, Fairness, and Forgiveness Shape Ingratiation
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- How Context Shapes Enterprise: Why Immigrants Are Often More Entrepreneurial
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- When Family Support Fuels Women’s Entrepreneurial Success in Hostile Markets
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- When Rude Coworkers Create Distance: How Self-Pity Deepens Feelings of Isolation at Work
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- When Bullying Breeds Gossip: How Faith, Innovation, Meaning, and Trust Protect Employees
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- When Lacking Political Skill Drains You: How Unforgiving Workplaces Make Things Worse
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- When Competition Undermines Character: How Knowledge Hiding Reduces Conscientiousness at Work
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- Faith and Fellowship: How Religiousness and Collectivism Foster Helping Under Abusive Leadership
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- When Crisis Undermines Change: How Confidence and Connection Sustain Initiative
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- When Detachment from the Organization Reduces Initiative for Change
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- When Fear and Family Pressures Collide: Shared Goals Keep Helping Alive
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- When Conflicts Turn Cold: How Rivalry and Belonging Needs Drive Knowledge Hiding
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- When Politics Undermine Goodwill: How Tenacity and Passion Keep Employees Helping
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- Sleepless and Disconnected: How Rigid Rules Turn Exhaustion into Withdrawal at Work
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- When Promises Break Deadlines: How Faith Protects Against Disengagement at Work
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- When Family Tensions Silence Employees: How Emotion Sharing Keeps Voices Heard
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- How Family Dynamics Shape Women Entrepreneurs’ Energy and Initiative
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- When Overload Leads to Hiding: How Work Pressure and Competition Suppress Knowledge Sharing
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- Mitigating the Harmful Effect of Perceived Organizational Compliance on Trust in Top Management: Buffering Roles of Employees' Personal Resources
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- When Politics Backfire: How Knowledge Hiding Reduces Promotability in Political Workplaces
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- Turning Initiative into Impact: How Resources Sustain Employee Championing
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- When Information Feels Unfair: How Humor and Initiative Keep Creativity Alive
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- Speaking Up in Crisis: How Passion and Shared Goals Sustain Employee Voice
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- When Bullies Push People Out: How Politics and Creativity Shape Turnover Intentions
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- How Family Support Fuels Women Entrepreneurs’ Drive in Hostile Markets
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- When Harsh Leaders Drain Drive: How Mindfulness Protects Performance
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- Balancing Family Strain and Business Drive: How Entrepreneurial Orientation Fuels Women’s Success
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- Turning Tension into Voice: How Adversity Strengthens the Benefits of Task Conflict
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- The diminishing returns of work engagement: The roles of feedback seeking and personal resources
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- When Careers Stall: Why Struggling Employees Speak Up Instead of Staying Silent
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- How Workplace Politics Lead to Employee Turnover: The Role of Adaptation and Emotional Control
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- When Favoritism Breeds Apathy: How Leader Support Prevents Procrastination
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- When Family Strain Meets Market Hostility: How Exhaustion Limits Women’s Business Success
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- When Too Much Energy Backfires: How Feedback and Psychological Capital Keep Engagement Effective
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- When Workplace Politics Drive Turnover: How Resources Help Employees Stay
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- When Showing Off Helps: Exhibitionism and Helping Behavior at Work
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- When Ethical Leaders Build Trust: How Servant Leadership Reduces Workplace Mistreatment
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- When Job Insecurity Undermines Performance: The Calming Role of Religious Faith
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- When Norms Suppress Ideas: How Creativity Loss Reduces Employees’ Entrepreneurial Intentions
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- When Career Compromises Drive Employees to Consider Leaving
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- When Freedom Meets Barriers: How Job Autonomy Shapes Women Entrepreneurs’ Work–Life Balance
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- Staying Strong Amid Rudeness: How Self-Control Protects Idea Champions from Burnout
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- When COVID-19 Fear Disrupts Sleep: Economic Worries, Distress, and Mindfulness at Work
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- When Justice Fails at Work: How Organizational Injustice Fuels Employee Deviance
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- When Fairness Fuels Agility: How Feeling Valued Inspires Quick Problem-Solving
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- When Impressing Upward Pays Off: How Popularity and Hierarchy Shape Workplace Influence
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- When Crisis Sparks Collaboration: How Conflict and Collectivism Drive Creativity
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- When Bullying Sparks Backlash: How Anger and Personality Drive Workplace Deviance
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- When Tensions Spark Ideas: Turning Workplace Conflict into Creative Strength
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- When Careers Stall: How Shared Goals, Supervisor Support, and Fair Communication Help
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- When Abuse Rewards Silence: How Neurotic Employees Protect Themselves Through Defensive Quietness
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- When Work Hurts Home: How Career Satisfaction Keeps Engagement—and Performance—Alive
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- When Frustration Fuels Effort: How Speaking Up Transforms Dissatisfaction into High Performance
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- Progress and Purpose: How Career Growth Fuels Employees’ Idea Championing
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- When Broken Promises Make You Anxious: How Different Expectations Shape Performance
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- When Disrespect Breeds Defiance: How Coworker Incivility Lowers Job Performance
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- Sharing Knowledge, Sparking Creativity: How Resources Multiply Innovation
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- Staying Positive Under Pressure: How Passion, Humor, Sharing, and Forgiveness Help
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- When Arrogance Breeds Gossip: How Resilience Protects Organizations from Leadership Decay
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- When Doing Good Feels Good: How Social Beliefs Strengthen Entrepreneurs’ Well-Being
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- Sleepless Yet Creative: How Commitment, Sharing, and Forgiveness Sustain Innovation
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- When Injustice Breeds Silence: How Benevolence Keeps Knowledge Flowing
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- When Coworkers Care: How Support Reduces Stress and Keeps Employees from Leaving
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- When Family Pressures Spill into Work: How Interaction, Trust, and Fairness Help
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- When Broken Promises Breed Silence: How Positivity Stops Knowledge Hiding
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- How Institutions Shape Entrepreneurs’ Happiness Around the World
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- Mediators and Moderators of Coworker Support and Employee Turnover Intentions--Model
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- When Politics Hurt Performance: Career Plateaus and Unfair Leaders Explain the Decline
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- When Balance Meets Support: How Gender Equality Conditions Shape Female Entrepreneurs’ Satisfaction
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- Coping and Laughing Through Broken Promises: How Emotion and Humor Sustain Creativity
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- When Power Corrupts: How Despotic Leaders Inspire Employees to Impress for Status
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- When Rudeness Spreads: How Job Anxiety Turns Incivility into Emotional Withdrawal
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- When Promises Break: How Confidence and Emotional Control Protect Job Satisfaction
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- When Time Pressure Turns Toxic: How Work Stress and Dark Traits Drive Counterproductive Behavior
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- When Fear Silences Innovation: How Passion for Work Protects Performance Under Terror Threats
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- When Humor Heals: How Laughter Protects Against the Harm of Bad Leadership
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- When Helping Hurts: How Citizenship Pressure Drains Energy and Lowers Performance
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- Accounting For Organizational Willingness To Change: A Configurational Perspective
- When the Clock Turns Toxic: How Time Stress and Gossip Undermine Job Performance
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- Staying Kind When Work Feels Tough: How Psychological Capital Protects Helping Behavior
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- When Faith Meets Power: How Despotic Leadership and Islamic Work Ethic Shape Employee Well-Being
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- When Pressure Fuels Creativity: How Adversity Amplifies the Power of Resilience
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- When Job-Involved Employees Help: How Tough Times Bring Out Team Support
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- When Job Satisfaction Sparks Cooperation: The Roles of Meaning, Collectivism, and Support
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- When Roles Are Unclear: How Resilience, Interdependence, and Emotion Sharing Sustain Creativity
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- Staying Engaged in Unclear Roles: How Savvy and Belonging Sustain Extra Effort
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- When Government Support Sparks Renewal: How Entrepreneurship Drives Firm Success
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- How Resources and Culture Shape Entrepreneurs’ Social Goals
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- When Feeling Excluded Hurts Work: How Confidence and Rank Can Protect Performance
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- When Workplace Incivility Reduces Helping: The Buffering Role of Political Skill
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- When Compliance Undermines Trust: How Personal Resources Help Employees Adapt to Change
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- When Faith Fuels Change: How Religiosity Inspires Employees to Improve Their Organizations
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- When Knowledge Sharing Backfires: How Change Resistance and Politics Spur Unethical Loyalty
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- Creativity Under Pressure: How Passion, Emotion Sharing, and Commitment Protect Novel Ideas
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- The Power of Psychological Capital: How Different Strength Combinations Shape Work Success
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- When Home Tensions Spill Over: How Hope Shields Employees from Family Incivility
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- Toward rigour and relevance in entrepreneurship education research
- When Job Control Sparks Idea Championing under Pressure
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- When Values Spur Helping: Islamic Work Ethic, Despotic Leaders, and Gender Effects
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- When Unclear Roles Breed Distrust: How Role Ambiguity Fuels Perceptions of Unfair Evaluation
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- When Confidence Calms the Mind: How Self-Efficacy Strengthens Performance Under Incivility
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- The SAGE Handbook of Small Business and Entrepreneurship
- Introduction
- When Envy Clouds Fairness: How Dispositional Envy Undermines Performance in Political Workplaces
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- Staying When Roles Are Unclear: How Innovation, Trust, and Fairness Reduce Turnover Risk
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- When Fear Undermines Work: How Terrorism Anxiety Affects Employee Performance
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- Explaining Performance Under Threats of Terrorism: Effects of Anxiety and Religiousness
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- When Faith Buffers Family Strain: How Islamic Work Ethics Sustain Helping Behavior at Work
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- Thriving Amid Politics: How Leadership, Sharing, and Resilience Sustain Citizenship
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- When Conflicts Drain Energy: How Leadership, Tenacity, and Passion Protect Satisfaction
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- How Cognitive Styles Shape Learning: A Person-Centered Study of Student Profiles
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- When Pressure Sparks Sharing: How Tenacity Drives Knowledge Exchange under Role Conflict
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- When Institutions Matter: How Income and Education Shape Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies
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- When Persistence Finds Its Voice: How Work Adversity Strengthens Tenacious Expression
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- When Work Stress Mounts: How Commitment Explains and Social Bonds Protect Workplace Citizenship
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- Explaining Employee Creativity: The Roles of Knowledge-sharing Efforts and Organizational Context
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- The stalled theorization of a legitimately distinctive collective identity
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- When Turbulence Spurs Sustainability: How Networks and Innovation Drive Local Choices
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- When Unfair Communication Breeds Negativity: How Structure and Relationships Buffer Emotion
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- When Task Conflict Fosters Creativity: The Role of Learning Orientation and Goal Congruence
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- Bridging Generations: How Conflict Management, Shared Goals, and Trust Drive Family Firm Innovation
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- When Venture Capital Shapes Success: How Investor Involvement and New Leadership Boost Performance
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- How Flexibility Shapes Learning: When Entrepreneurial Energy Turns into Global Knowledge
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- When Shared Rewards Spark Innovation: How Collaboration Fuels Creative Success
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- When Work Feels Heavy but Relationships Inspire Innovation
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- How Local Knowledge, Networks, and Pride Drive Sourcing Decisions in Small Firms
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- Learning for Global Success: How Young Firms Thrive Through Turbulence and Trust
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- When Entrepreneurial Spirit Meets Learning: How Attention and Environment Drive Global Success
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- Leading through Service: How Shared Goals and Informal Interaction Strengthen Employee Engagement
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- When Collaboration Sparks Entrepreneurship in Small Firms
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- When Culture Restrains Resources: How Hierarchy and Conservatism Weaken Entrepreneurial Activity
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- When Shared Goals and Emotional Awareness Curb Misconduct at Work
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- The Ontario Wine Industry: Moving Forward
- Balancing Art and Commerce: How Business Actors Navigate Competing Logics
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- How Fairness Drives Change: The Roles of Conflict and Social Interaction
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- When Trust and Shared Goals Spark Entrepreneurial Thinking
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- When Balance Meets Context: How Internal Conditions Shape Organizational Performance
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- When Rivals Define Results: How Internal and External Competition Shape SME Performance
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- When Institutions Guide Resources: How Finance, Education, Trust, and Culture Shape Entrepreneurship
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- Balancing Global Norms and Local Identity: How Regional Industries Gain Legitimacy
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- Entrepreneurship for Persons with Disabilities: Economic and Social-psychological Benefits
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- Theory of Planned Behaviour as a Grounding Theory for the Entrepreneurship Education Literature
- When Fairness Sparks Innovation: How Internal Systems Strengthen Creative Collaboration
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- Business Model Change Effectiveness in Venture Capital-Backed Ventures
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- Changing, Stabilizing or Coping? Investigating mundane institutional work
- Rhetorical History as a Theorization Strategy: The case of Ontario fine wine
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- Why Some Countries Attract More Micro-Angel Investors: How Opportunity, Law, and Trust Work Together
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- When Learning and Passion Drive Entrepreneurial Dreams
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- How Young Firms Learn: Knowledge Pathways in International Entrepreneurship
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- When Freedom Meets Structure: How Autonomy and Shared Responsibility Shape Performance
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- When Autonomy, Trust, and Commitment Turn Innovation into Performance
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- When Institutions Make Networks Matter: Start-Ups in Emerging vs. Developed Economies
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- Balancing Sustainability and Profitability: How Entrepreneurs Gain Legitimacy
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- Empowering the Excluded: Integrating Disadvantaged People into Entrepreneurship
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- When Teams Connect: How Structure and Relationships Boost Innovation
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- Why Employees Promote New Ideas: Strategic Fit, Rewards, and Satisfaction at Work
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- GROBALIZATION, GLOCALIZATION AND THEORIZATION IN THE ONTARIO WINE INDUSTRY
- How Institutions in Emerging Economies Shape the Role of Social Networks in New Business Creation
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- Cross-Functional Collaboration, Knowledge Transfer and Product Innovativeness: Contingency Effects of Social Context
- When Fairness, Trust, and Commitment Boost Entrepreneurial Success
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- When Debate Helps and Politics Hurts: How Cross-Functional Dynamics Shape Innovation Success
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- How Newcomers Gain Institutional and Innovative Legitimacy
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- When Resources and Trust Shape Ethics: What Drives Entrepreneurs’ Moral Standards
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- A Practice Perspective on Entrepreneurship: How Newcomers Gain Legitimacy
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- Fitting In and Standing Out: How Entrepreneurs Gain Legitimacy and Resources
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- When Entrepreneurship Feels Possible and Worthwhile: How Beliefs and Support Shape Goal Commitment
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- When Reputation Restrains Involvement: How Group Dynamics Shape Firm Behavior in Alliances
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- When Conflict Meets Connection: How Social Capital Shapes Innovation
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- When Knowledge Travels: How Investment and Trade Drive Export-Oriented Entrepreneurship
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- When Customers Give Back: How Relational Support Builds Entrepreneurial Commitment and Satisfaction
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- How Growth, Innovation, and Team Factors Shape Entrepreneurs’ International Commitment
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- Erratum: Institutional context and the allocation of entrepreneurial effort
- A Cross-Country Analysis of Entrepreneurs' Resources and Ethical Attitudes
- Knowledge Spillovers and Entrepreneurs' Export Orientation
- How Institutions Channel Entrepreneurial Energy into High-Growth Ventures
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- When Knowing and Learning Meet: How Internal Expertise and External Ties Boost Venture Success
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- Why Employees Commit—and Work Harder: Roles of Status, Climate, and Entrepreneurial Orientation
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- KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVERS THROUGH FDI AND TRADE AND ENTREPRENEURS' EXPORT ORIENTATION.
- Assessing the Quality of Entrepreneurship Research: A Review of Methodological Validity
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- How Entrepreneurs Can Build Stronger Partnerships with Venture Capitalists
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- AN ATTENTION-BASED VIEW ON INTRA-ORGANIZATIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP.
- How Knowledge Shapes Entrepreneurial Action
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- How Relational Capital and Commitment Shape Value Creation in Venture Partnerships
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- When Focus Helps and Collaboration Hurts: How Venture Capital Strategies Shape Portfolio Failure
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- How Communication and Commitment Boost Firm Performance through Venture Capitalist Value Adding
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- How Firms Learn at Home and Abroad: The Roles of Early Expansion and Entrepreneurial Drive
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- When Venture Capitalists Learn from Their Portfolio Companies
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- The Internationalization of Small and Medium-Sized Firms
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- How Networks Shape Perception of Entrepreneurial Opportunities
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- Why Venture Capital Firms Team Up: Understanding the Drivers of Syndicated Investing
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- How Human Capital and Social Capital Drive National Innovation
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- How Relationship Investments and Knowledge Sharing Generate Value in Venture Capital Partnerships
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- How Venture Capital Firms Balance Specialization and Diversification in Their Investment Portfolios
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- Portfolio investment strategies in the Finnish venture capital industry: a longitudinal study
- Venture Capital and High-Tech Startups: Insights from the Literature
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- How Communication and Commitment Boost Firm Performance through Venture Capitalist Value Adding
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- The Venture Capital Post-investment Phase: Opening the Black Box of Involvement
- Entrepreneurship and Education in Belgium: Findings and Implications from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor
- Venture capital firms: a human capital perspective
- The Role of Learning in International Entrepreneurship